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Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#life #people #reminder-reminder-life #food

Chef don't judge. ↗

— Chef Boyardee

#chef-boyardee #humor #food

Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry. ↗

— Leslie Land

#spiders #winter #woods #food

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#come #covered #cows #either #i

Eaters of Wonder Bread Must be underbred. So little to eat. Where's the wheat? ↗

— Roy Blount Jr.

#eating #food #wheat #wonder-bread #wonderbread

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy. ↗

— Janet Poppendieck

#democracy #inequality #food

Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying that how quickly you got your food revealed the likelihood of achieving your goals. She was in fact terribly hungry, but she'd pretended to be otherwise to be ladylike and had moved away from the table to be agreeable, and now she'd continue to be hungry" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.92.) ↗

— Min Jin Lee

#hunger #women #food

...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say "Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#eating #indecency #indifference #food

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#born #cultures #democracies #division #emancipation

After 1656 the Dutch, who had gained control over the Moluccas, chose the islands that could be most easily defended. They then burned all the nutmeg trees on the other islands to make sure no one else could profit from the trees. Anyone caught trying to smuggle nutmeg out of the Moluccas was put to death. The Dutch also dipped all their nutmegs in lime (a caustic substance) to stop the seed from sprouting and to prevent people from planting their own trees. Pigeons, however, defied these Dutch precautions. Birds could eat nutmeg fruits, fly to another island and leave the seeds behind in their droppings. ↗

— Meredith Sayles Hughes

#spices #death